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Re: Anti Virus Software on a Mac?

From Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: Anti Virus Software on a Mac?
Date 2013-10-18 09:33 +1300
Organization Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID <181020130933047356%YourName@YourISP.com> (permalink)
References (2 earlier) <1latijk.akg8ii6aqpggN%dcohenspam@talktalk.net> <jollyroger-12336E.09482316102013@news.individual.net> <1lavyq6.1mba4131wd450yN%jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz> <slrnl5up7d.15io.g.kreme@mbp55.local> <1laxi6u.165se85zzngfdN%jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz>

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In article <1laxi6u.165se85zzngfdN%jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz>, Jamie
Kahn Genet <jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz> wrote:

> Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
> 
> > In message <1lavyq6.1mba4131wd450yN%jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz> 
> >   Jamie Kahn Genet <jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz> wrote:
> > > Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
> > >> In article <1latijk.akg8ii6aqpggN%dcohenspam@talktalk.net>,
> > >>  dcohenspam@talktalk.net (Daniel Cohen) wrote:
> > >> > Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
> > >> > 
> > >> > > In all the MANY years of using and adminstering Apple computers
> > >> > > (since
> > >> > > before there even was a Mac), I have only ever found ONE virus, and
> > >> > > that was a Windows virus infecting a Word document on a floppy disk
> > >> > > from a Windows user way back under Mac OS 8.
> > >> > 
> > >> > Ph well, if you're going that far back, I will mention that once I had
> > >> > a
> > >> > virus on my Mac (around system 6 pr 7), and that came from a cover disk
> > >> > of a Mac magazine.
> > >> 
> > >> I've had several run-ins with classic Mac viruses myself. Those were fun
> > >> days!  : )
> > 
> > > A mate used to collect them - had a few floppies full.
> > 
> > They would have all fit on a single floppy.  There were, IIRC, 31 total.
> > Disinfectant was a system extension that protected from all of them.
> 
> *shrug* A few infected hypercard stacks which were not insignificant in
> size. But I'm sure just the uncompiled code for every single classic Mac
> virus, worm and trojan horse could have fit on one single sided 400K
> floppy. Those were the days. Try fitting an OS (System 6 for example),
> an app and still having room for several documents on one 1.44MB floppy
> nowadays. If you can find such a floppy. 

I've got hundreds of them - Amiga formatted and Mac formatted.  :-)

Brnad new floppy disks are hard to find, although I seem to recall
reading only relatively recently that some company had decided to stop
making them.




> Or anything to read it.

Well, if you want to spend the time to clean and re-align my PowerMac's
floppy drive, then I can read them.



> I wonder if my Imation SuperDisk (failed 120MB 'super' floppies, plus
> regular 1.44MB floppy read/write) still works with modern Macs...?

It might do, depending on the connector and disk formatting. My
PowerMac's internal Zip drive still works with Mac OS X 10.1 and 10.2.

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  Re: Anti Virus Software on a Mac? Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-10-15 07:44 -0700
  Re: Anti Virus Software on a Mac? Suzie-Q <sme617x@gmail.com> - 2013-10-15 11:05 -0500
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      Re: Anti Virus Software on a Mac? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-10-17 19:15 +1300
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        Re: Anti Virus Software on a Mac? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-10-15 21:34 -0400
          Re: Anti Virus Software on a Mac? Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-10-15 21:43 -0700
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          Re: Anti Virus Software on a Mac? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-10-17 08:12 -0700
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      Re: Anti Virus Software on a Mac? "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2013-10-17 00:19 +0000
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          Re: Mac magazines (was Re: Anti Virus Software on a Mac?) Skylamar <nothingtoseehere@movealong.net> - 2013-10-16 22:14 -0700
            Re: Mac magazines (was Re: Anti Virus Software on a Mac?) Bread <BreadWithSpam@Fractious.net> - 2013-10-17 04:55 -0700
          Re: Mac magazines (was Re: Anti Virus Software on a Mac?) Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2013-10-20 12:42 +0200
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